This is usually the first question. It's actually really hard for a virus to adapt to growing well in a new host species. Even influenza viruses—basically bird viruses, but notorious for causing ...

A new virus, Langya henipavirus, is suspected to have caused infections in 35 people in China’s Shandong and Henan provinces over roughly a two-year period to 2021. It’s related to Hendra and Nipah ...

Epidemiologist Elizabeth Schiffman, who supervises the Vectorborne Diseases Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health, ...

Experts are sounding the alarm about the discovery of a never-before-seen virus in the US which belongs to a deadly family of ...

On a white background, three test tubes with the very widespread New Virus called the Nipah Virus are shown. Getty Images According to the CDC, this alarming discovery is now listed as an ...

New giant virus regulates microbial populations in soil The finding indicates that giant viruses are more prevalent than thought in soil and water, even in northern environments. "The discovery ...

the virus’s ability to infect different kinds of animals highlights that the microbe can evolve and adapt to infect new hosts, scientists say. As it spreads, it warrants careful and continued ...

Mimivirus is the largest and most complex virus known. Is it an evolutionary ... probably represents the first identified member of a new class of NCLDVs (Raoult et al. 2004).

The study that discovered and described GCXV was part of a broader effort to better understand mosquito-borne viruses. The research team reported finding a variant of the new virus in a red colobus ...

That poses a challenge as the virus tears through Texas and New Mexico, and emerges in other parts of the country. By Dani Blum Until this year, Dr. Leila Myrick had never seen a case of measles.